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Police arrest Spanish woman suspected of planning to join Islamic State in Syria
MADRID – Spanish police have arrested a 22-year-old woman they suspect was planning to join the Islamic State armed group…
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YAOUNDE, Cameroon – A military official says the head of U.S. forces in Africa has donated armored vehicles to Cameroon…
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PRAGUE – Hundreds of people are beating drums in Prague to mark the 74th anniversary of the first Czech Jews…
Read MorePeru announces probe after AP reports on military turning blind eye to cocaine flights
MAZAMARI, Peru – Peru’s defense minister announced Wednesday an investigation into allegations of military corruption in the world’s No. 1…
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ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s coast guard says eight people are missing after a wooden boat carrying migrants or refugees attempting…
Read MorePolice: 2 more people detained in French probe into student’s failed attack on church
PARIS – A police official says two people have been detained in an investigation into a failed attack on a…
Read MoreLawyer: Ex-CIA agent convicted in Italy has requested pardon from 6-year sentence
MILAN – The Italian lawyer of a former CIA operative convicted in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan…
Read MoreAgency lowers Catalonia’s credit rating amid political tension over independence drive
MADRID – Uncertainty over Catalonia’s political future is set to hurt the independence-minded Spanish region’s public finances after an international…
Read MoreOfficial: Extremist rebels kill 2 in drive-by shooting in Somalia’s capital
NAIROBI, Kenya – A Somali official says Islamic extremist rebels killed two men in a drive-by shooting in Somalia’s capital,…
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